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Dec

Working in Stages–A Guest Blog from Karen Wiesner

Posted by Shonna Slayton  Published in NaNoWriMo, Organization, Productivity

Introductory note: This is Karen Wiesner’s 6th and final blog of her Tuesday’s series on NaNoWriMo at Routines for Writers. If you missed the other five blogs, be sure to look back at all the great information and worksheet links she’s given us. On behalf of the writing team at Routines for Writers: Thank you, Karen, for supporting us [...]

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Nov

Encouragement–A Guest Blog by Karen Wiesner

Posted by Shonna Slayton  Published in NaNoWriMo, Organization, Productivity

Never compare yourself or your output to another writer. You’re moving forward every single day and accomplishing something. That is productive.
 
Whether or not you completed an outline before you started the NaNoWriMo challenge, or you only have only a partial outline or guideline to work with, the act of writing can produce magical results. [...]

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Nov

NaNoWriMo Week 1 – Creating Goals Worksheets – A Guest Blog from Karen Wiesner

Posted by Shonna Slayton  Published in NaNoWriMo, Organization

Introductory note: The NaNoWriMo race is on and Karen Wiesner is back to help us reach the finish line of a 50,000 word novel by the end of the month. She’ll be with us every Tuesday in November to offer advice based on her books First Draft in 30 Days and From First Draft to [...]

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Oct

NaNoWriMo—A Two-Pronged Attack

Posted by Shonna Slayton  Published in NaNoWriMo, Organization, Productivity

What a great week we’ve had here at Routines for Writers. Our Guest Blogger Karen Wiesner has pumped up the excitement level for NaNoWriMo. We’ve had hundreds of readers visiting this week. I hope you all have great plans for your writing in November.
 
So, last year’s NaNo…I went into it with a title and two [...]

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Oct

Planning for NaNoWriMo: Building a Plan – A Guest Blog from Karen Wiesner

Posted by Shonna Slayton  Published in NaNoWriMo, Organization, Productivity

Introductory Note: Karen Wiesner started a series of blogs this week to help us make it successfully through NaNoWriMo (and beyond, really). The first blog was on Tuesday, called Planning for NaNoWriMo: Building an Outline. It really is a companion piece to this one so make sure you check it out here. We’ve put these two blogs [...]

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Oct

License to Daydream

Posted by Kitty Bucholtz  Published in NaNoWriMo, Organization, Productivity

Preparing the writing itself for NaNoWriMo is probably the most important thing I can do in October. Planning my life to accommodate the increased writing hours and the decreased “everything else” hours is important, and we’ll talk about that next week, but the writing… ahhh. 
The best part about this kind of planning is that [...]

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Oct

Planning for NaNoWriMo: Building an Outline – A Guest Blog from Karen Wiesner

Posted by Shonna Slayton  Published in NaNoWriMo, Organization, Productivity

Introductory note: How are you going to spend your NaNoWriMO? Write by the seat of your pants or plan a detailed outline? Stephanie is our resident write-by-the-seat-of-her-pants gal and she writes really well that way. I (Shonna) tried that last year and decided that this year I needed a little more planning. So I sought [...]

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